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Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (`sarge'), Mipsel
Chapter 3 - New installations

The old Debian GNU/Linux installation system called boot-floppies has been replaced by a new componentized and more powerful installation system called debian-installer.

The installer offers a variety of installation methods. Which methods are available to install your system depends on your architecture.

If you are making a new installation of Debian, you should read the Installation Guide, which is available on the Official CD at:

     /doc/install/manual/language/index.html

or on the Internet from the sarge release pages. You may also want to check the errata for debian-installer.

3.1 Issue with DHCP on Cobalt machines

CoLo, the Cobalt boot loader which is used to load the installer via DHCP and NFS, has some known bugs in its DHCP client implementation. This may result in failures to obtain an IP address from the server. This has been confirmed to be the case with a Windows 2000 DHCP server and may apply to other DHCP servers. If you experience problems obtaining an IP address via DHCP and you are confident that your DHCP server is configured properly, please download a newer version of CoLo and replace /nfsroot/vmlinux.gz with it on your DHCP/NFS server. The DHCP problems have been addressed in this version.

3.2 Popularity contest

For technical reasons the popularity-contest package is no longer installed by default for new sarge installations. This will probably be corrected in future releases.

popularity-contest provides the Debian project with valuable information on which packages in the distribution are actually used. This information is used mainly to decide the order in which packages are included on installation CD-ROMs, but is also often consulted by Debian developers in deciding whether or not to adopt a package that no longer has a maintainer.

Information from popularity-contest is processed anonymously. We would appreciate it if you install the package and allow it to participate in the official survey; you will thereby help improve Debian.

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Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (`sarge'), Mipsel